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Report: Most enterprises ignore “shared responsibility” of public cloud security
Industries across the board are increasingly migrating workloads to public clouds, but security concerns are still holding back much wider adoption, according to a new survey by Barracuda Networks Inc. Barracuda’s survey of 300 information technology decision-makers from various sizes of organizations found that 44 percent of respondents are using public cloud-based infrastructure as a ...
Adobe beats earnings estimates, but its stock falls on muted guidance
Adobe Systems Inc. posted another solid set of financial results that beat out analysts’ expectations and set a new record in terms of quarterly revenue. The maker of creative software provided via cloud services reported a fiscal third-quarter profit of $419 million, or 84 cents per share. Earnings after certain costs such as stock compensation came ...
Smartsheet enhances its collaboration suite with new automation features
Smartsheet.com Inc. is enhancing its collaboration software suite with new capabilities that allow employees to further automate some of the more repetitive, manual tasks they perform on a daily basis. In turn, that should free up employees to focus on more important “high value” work, the company said. Smartsheet today was set to unveil its new automation ...
IBM launches cloud data migration appliance to rival Amazon’s Snowball
Playing catch-up to its main cloud rivals, IBM Corp. Monday launched a competing physical cloud mass data migration service, designed to take on similar offerings from Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. IBM’s Cloud Mass Data Migration service allows customers to physically ship terabytes of data from their on-premises data centers ...
John Chambers says he’ll step down from Cisco’s board in December
Cisco Systems Inc.’s former chief executive officer and current executive chairman, John Chambers, will step down from the company’s board of directors in December. Chambers (pictured), who served as CEO from 1995 to 2015 before handing over the reins to Chuck Robbins, Monday told the company’s board that he will not be standing for re-election ...
Slack lands $250M funding round led by Japan’s Softbank Group
Slack Technologies Inc., maker of the popular team messaging application of the same name, has become the latest beneficiary of Softbank Group Corp.’s $1 billion Vision Fund. The company said on Sunday it has just closed on a $250 million funding round led by the Japanese telecommunications and Internet giant, which saw the participation of ...
David Goulden, Dell EMC’s infrastructure services president, will quit next year
One of Dell EMC’s most senior executives, David Goulden (pictured), who is currently in charge of the company’s Infrastructure Solutions Group, will leave the company by the end of its current fiscal year in January 2018. Dell Technologies Inc. announced the departure of Goulden Friday, saying the executive will hang around to help with a ...
Amazon beefs up cloud server instances for high-performance databases
Amazon Web Services Inc. late Wednesday announced new server instances for customers running data-intensive in-memory databases such as SAP SE’s Hana platform on its cloud. The new EC2 instances come with 4 terabytes of dedicated DDR4 memory. They’re currently available in Amazon’s U.S. East, U.S. West, Asia Pacific and EU regions, the company said. Customers ...
Microsoft unveils new cloud security services and user interface tools
Microsoft Corp. on Thursday unveiled a new set of services called Azure Confidential Computing that’s designed to bolster the security of its public cloud service. Separately, the company is also planning to lift the lid on a preview of Project Honolulu, which is a graphical management tool intended to be used with the forthcoming Windows ...
Lyft and Uber eye big funding from Google and SoftBank
Ride-hailing giants Lyft Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. look to be on the verge of landing even more big funding rounds, led by Google Inc.’s parent company Alphabet Inc., and Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group Corp. The biggest surprise is Lyft’s funding. It’s being reported by both Bloomberg and Axios that Google is looking to ...